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18. “Be careful, you are not in Wonderland. I’ve heard the strange madness long growing in your soul. But you are fortunate in your ignorance, in your isolation. You who have suffered, find where love hides. Give, share, lose – lest we die, unbloomed.”
Allen Ginsberg
Madness, Love, Suffering, Generosity, Existential Advice, Poetic Reflection
19. “And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses? – now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound well, too. It was the beating of the old man’s heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.” Edgar Allan Poe Madness, Perception, Sound, Philosophical Insight, Emotional Complexity, Psychological Horror
21. “We will say, then, that I am mad. I grant, at least, that there are two distinct conditions of my mental existence – the condition of a lucid reason, not to be disputed, and belonging to the memory of events forming the first epoch of my life – and.” Edgar Allan Poe Madness, Duality, Self-awareness, Philosophical Reflection, Emotional Insight, Psychological Complexity
22. “The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fiber of my frame.” Edgar Allan Poe Madness, Possession, Emotional Turmoil, Philosophical Insight, Psychological Horror, Existential Dread
25. “So I am mad, you say? You should have seen how careful I was to put the body where no one could find it. First I cut off the head, then the arms and the legs. I was careful not to let a single drop of blood fall on the floor. I pulled up three of the boards that formed the floor, and put the pieces of the body there. Then I put the boards down again, carefully, so carefully that no human eye could see that they had been moved.” Edgar Allan Poe Murder, Madness, Guilt, Meticulousness, Philosophical Insight, Psychological Horror
28. “FOR the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mad am I not – and very surely do I not dream. But tomorrow I die, and today I would unburthen my soul.” Edgar Allan Poe Narrative, Belief, Madness, Philosophical Insight, Emotional Honesty, Existential Urgency
29. “I am come of a race noted for vigor of fancy and ardor of passion. Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence – whether much that is glorious – whether all that is profound – does not spring from disease of thought – from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect. They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.” Edgar Allan Poe Heritage, Creativity, Madness, Philosophical Reflection, Existential Inquiry, Emotional Depth
Madness Quotes by Famous Authors
18. “Be careful, you are not in Wonderland. I’ve heard the strange madness long growing in your soul. But you are fortunate in your ignorance, in your isolation. You who have suffered, find where love hides. Give, share, lose – lest we die, unbloomed.”
Allen Ginsberg Madness, Love, Suffering, Generosity, Existential Advice, Poetic Reflection
19. “And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses? – now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound well, too. It was the beating of the old man’s heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.”
Edgar Allan Poe Madness, Perception, Sound, Philosophical Insight, Emotional Complexity, Psychological Horror
21. “We will say, then, that I am mad. I grant, at least, that there are two distinct conditions of my mental existence – the condition of a lucid reason, not to be disputed, and belonging to the memory of events forming the first epoch of my life – and.”
Edgar Allan Poe Madness, Duality, Self-awareness, Philosophical Reflection, Emotional Insight, Psychological Complexity
22. “The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fiber of my frame.”
Edgar Allan Poe Madness, Possession, Emotional Turmoil, Philosophical Insight, Psychological Horror, Existential Dread
25. “So I am mad, you say? You should have seen how careful I was to put the body where no one could find it. First I cut off the head, then the arms and the legs. I was careful not to let a single drop of blood fall on the floor. I pulled up three of the boards that formed the floor, and put the pieces of the body there. Then I put the boards down again, carefully, so carefully that no human eye could see that they had been moved.”
Edgar Allan Poe Murder, Madness, Guilt, Meticulousness, Philosophical Insight, Psychological Horror
28. “FOR the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mad am I not – and very surely do I not dream. But tomorrow I die, and today I would unburthen my soul.”
Edgar Allan Poe Narrative, Belief, Madness, Philosophical Insight, Emotional Honesty, Existential Urgency
29. “I am come of a race noted for vigor of fancy and ardor of passion. Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence – whether much that is glorious – whether all that is profound – does not spring from disease of thought – from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect. They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
Edgar Allan Poe Heritage, Creativity, Madness, Philosophical Reflection, Existential Inquiry, Emotional Depth
